Divided nation civil war

AstraZeneca then suddenly said that due to a manufacturing issue, they will fall short of the 300 million doses the EU has already paid for, of which 100 million doses were supposed to be ready to be distributed this weekend. “While there is no scheduled delay to the start of shipments of our vaccine should we receive approval in Europe, initial volumes will be lower than originally anticipated due to reduced yields at a manufacturing site within our European supply chain,” AstraZeneca said in a statement Monday. “We will be supplying tens of millions of doses in February and March to the European Union, as we continue to ramp up production volumes.” But with thousands already dying every day across the bloc, that delay will almost certainly cost lives. … [Read more...] about Panicked Euro Leaders Threaten Trade War as Vaccine Rollout Goes to Hell

That channel is itself an attempt to impersonate the Trumpist right, falsely claiming to be the official Telegram of the social media site Gab. Gab’s CEO, who advertised his site as a censorship-free platform after Twitter banned prominent QAnon accounts, told The Daily Beast that the channel “is impersonating me and is infringing on Gab’s trademark. I have reported it to Telegram multiple times but it has not yet been removed.” A spokesperson for Telegram did not respond to a request for comment. … [Read more...] about The Far-Right Feeding Frenzy on QAnon Leftovers

It’s true that it is impossible to predict the future, but that should not prevent the world from internalizing important lessons from the past. On January 27, as we observe Holocaust Remembrance Day -- 76 years after the liberation of the hell that was the Nazi death camp, Auschwitz -- I believe we should be casting our eyes slightly further back to the pre-war years. … [Read more...] about Amb. Gilad Erdan: On Holocaust Remembrance Day, the world must apply ‘Never Again’ to Iran

Republicans, many of whom struggled to support the second round of pandemic stimulus during the Trump administration, have increasingly pointed to concerns about the ballooning national debt in the wake of Washington’s pandemic response, which has already drained more than $4 trillion from the nation’s coffers—and that’s not counting the massive tax shortfall faced by the Internal Revenue Service. The resurgence of deficit hawkishness after four years of the GOP’s acquiescence to a free-spending Trump—who ushered in the budget-busting tax cut bill beloved by the party—coincides, of course, with a Democratic return to power. … [Read more...] about Both Sides Sharpen Their Carving Knives for Biden’s COVID Relief Plan

SANTA CRUZ (CBS SF) — Hundreds of residents packed up their treasured belongings early Tuesday, preparing to evacuate homes in the burn zone of last fall’s devastating Santa Cruz Mountains wildfire, as a powerful Pacific storm edged ever closer with as much as a foot of rain and the threat of deadly mudslides. … [Read more...] about Atmospheric River: Hurricane Hunters Fly Into Storm; Residents Flee Homes In Santa Cruz Mountains